Twitter reminds Trump of his own racism after he tries to speak for African Americans

A revealing trip down memory lane.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - AUGUST 14: (AFP-OUT) U.S. President Donald Trump makes a statement on the violence this past weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia at the White House on August 14, 2017 in Washington, DC. Heather Heyer, 32, was killed in Charlottesville when a car allegedly driven by James Alex Fields Jr. barreled into a crowd of counter-protesters following violence at the 'Unite the Right' rally. Two Virginia state police troopers were also killed when their helicopter crashed while covering events on the ground. (Photo by Chris Kleponis-Pool/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump has seized on the controversy in Virginia, where Democratic Governor Ralph Northam is facing calls to resign after a blackface photo appeared under his name in his medical school yearbook. The state’s attorney general, Mark Herring, has also admitted to wearing blackface in the past.

African Americans are very angry at the double standard on full display in Virginia!

“African Americans are very angry at the double standard on full in display in Virginia,” Trump tweeted.

Twitter has not given him the praise for this tweet he may have been looking for. Instead, many have pointed out Trump’s history of racism against African Americans.

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Political journalist and commentator Roland Martin noted that Trump has yet to atone for propagating the racist birther lie against former President Obama. Before he ran for president, Trump was the most well-known person to suggest Obama wasn’t eligible to be president and claimed to have the proof (he did not have proof).

Trump was also reminded of his acts against the Central Park Five, who were falsely convicted of committing sexual assault on a jogger in 1989. Trump spent $85,000 on full-page advertisements in major New York City newspapers calling for the execution of the men.

When Trump was confronted about his actions during the 2016 campaign, he doubled down and claimed they were still guilty despite DNA evidence proving their innocence. “They admitted they were guilty,” he said at the time, perhaps not understanding how police can often pressure innocent individuals into making confessions.

Trump has some nerve to talk about African Americans in Virginia when he’s the one who made viscious false accusations against the Central Park 5. And both Trump and the Republicans waged some kind of doxxing information warfare campaign in Virginia.

Trump’s business history also had plenty of racist elements to it, as Trump denial of rental applications to black people in New York City were so frequent he was investigated and subsequently sued by the Department of Justice. This, too, was brought to his attention on Twitter.

You marked rental applications by African-Americans with a "C" for "colored" to deny them apartments. DoJ sued you for racial discrimination. Twice. You settled. Twice. You refused to denounce the KKK. You tweeted fake black crime stats from a white supremacist site. SIT DOWN!

After the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, Trump blamed “both sides” for the violence, despite anti-racist activist Heather Heyer losing her life when a white supremacist hit her with a car. Trump also has shown a callous attitude toward immigrants from African nations, saying they come from “shithole countries”.

African Americans are also angry about a President who defends Nazis in Charlottesville.